WHY DO WE CELEBRATE NATIONAL COOKING DAY?

IMPORTANT OF COOKING!

National Cooking Day is feasted on September 25 every year. Cooking is an art, and not everyone can make it that easier. The National Cooking Day helps encourage and inspire people to discover and experience foods from their kitchens. The main celebration is start when something prepared deliciously on its own and served to loved ones.

Cooking means applying heat to food. The oldest form of cooking is basically fire-roasting and, specifically, open fire cooking. Heat makes food softer, so less time is needed for chewing. Simplest ways to improve your health is by preparing more home-cooked meals.

There are 2 types of cooking categories:

• Dry heat cooking.
• Moist heat cooking.

MOST COMMON COOKING METODS

Boiling

Boiling is cooking food at 212 degrees, in water or some other water-based liquid. Boiling is suitable for hardier vegetables such as corn and potatoes. During boiling, some nutrients leach out of the vegetables and into the cooking water so try to avoid overboiling your vegetables.

Steaming

Steaming is a healthy method of cooking and Steaming softens the fibers of vegetables and fruits. It also has the potential to increase the nutrient density or ability of nutrient absorption for some vegetables also making them more easily digestible.

Baking

Baking is a dry heat method of preparing food. Baking is regularly used for bread, cakes, cookies and most of the dessert’s items.

Sautéing

Sautéing method cooking by the direct heat of a pan. It cooks food fast also sautéing keeps the texture, flavors and moisture.

Frying

Frying means cooking foods by hot fat or oils. Deep fat fried foods are very popular nowadays. It is high in fat, calories, and often salt. 

Grilling

Grilling uses high heat. Grilling methods which use live fire and smoke to cook the food used sticks to create a flame over a fire and place the meat on it

Roasting

Roasting it on hot coals kills off germs that cause food poisoning. It’s a is a slow-cooking process. Roasting can be applied to a wide variety of meat.

IN CONCLUSION

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